Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,252,595"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,143
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$545,901,190,395
 
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Putin’s Winning Hand:
 
Once the Atlantic Alliance is shattered, America’s lifeline to the world is kaput
 
By Mike Whitney
 
There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills, manufacturing plants and residential areas. It is also the home to 30,000 South Ossetians. When Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered the city to be bombed by warplanes and shelled by heavy artillery last Thursday, he knew that he would be killing hundreds of civilians in their homes and neighborhoods. But he ordered the bombing anyway.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20535.htm

My Army Went To Iraq And All I Got Was This Lousy Airlift:
 
The Bush Doctrine Meets Reality. Reality Wins.
 
By David Michael Green
 
Your average American is going to have a hard time seeing the Iraq war as morally equivalent to the one in Georgia (let alone even less justified), but that is simply because he or she is American. The rest of the world has no such problem, and never has. An invasion of a sovereign state is an invasion of a sovereign state, pure and simple.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20527.htm

Mr. Bush, Enough!!
 
By Lisa KARPOVA
 
So you have the colossal audacity, Mr. Bush, to “warn” Russia to pull back? As the wanton, perverse war criminal under whose watch the world saw the crime known as “shock and awe” committed, I’d say you were well out of your mind to suggest that Russia should pull back.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20533.htm

Gorbatchev describes Georgia Attack,, Media “Lies from Begining to End”
 
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www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20534.htm

In case you missed it
 
The Mythology of People Power
 
By John Laughland
 
The glamour of street protests should not blind us to the reality of US-backed coups in the former USSR.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20531.htm

In case you missed it
 
Manufactured Revolutions?
 
By Dragan Plavsic
 
In recent years, the US has worked hard to instrumentalise the velvet revolution, to exploit it for its own ends. With massive funds, it has used rigged elections to help trigger regime change, as in Serbia and Ukraine. It has anticipated revolt by cultivating oppositionists to lead it, as in Georgia. It has established and maintained a ‘democratic’ infrastructure of NGOs, media outlets and publishing houses that has spawned a host of intellectuals and activists for whom the most viable economic and political model is still the one offered by the victor of the Cold War.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20532.htm

Energy War
 
Russia-Georgia Conflict Fueled by Rush to Control Caspian Energy Resources
 
Democracy Now! Audio & Transcript
 
Human Rights Watch has accused both Russian and Georgian forces of killing and injuring civilians through indiscriminate attacks over the past week of fighting. Professor and author Michael Klare joins us to talk about how the Russian-Georgian conflict is largely an energy war over who has access to the vast oil and natural gas reserves in the Caspian region.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20538.htm

Out Damn Blot
 
A Letter to Colin Powell
 
By Ray McGovern
 
You have said you regret the “blot” on your record caused by your parroting spurious intelligence at the U.N. to justify war on Iraq. On the chance you may not have noticed, I write to point out that you now have a unique opportunity to do some rehab on your reputation. If you were blindsided, well, here’s an opportunity to try to wipe off some of the blot. There is no need for you to end up like Lady Macbeth, wandering around aimlessly muttering, Out damn spot… or blot.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20536.htm

“Al-Qa’ida” sends its warriors from Iraq to wage ‘jihad’ in Lebanon
 
Bomb attack in Tripoli has exposed the brutal infighting in the country’s second city
 
By Robert Fisk
 
Abdullah got it about right. Picking his fingernails in the ticket office of the local bus station, he lowered his eyes. He had seen everything; the severed arms and legs of Lebanese soldiers, the still uniformed but headless infantryman slumped out of the window of the minibus round the corner, and the bodies of all the little people who die when bombs go off her.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20528.htm

US Wants Dismantling and not Temporary Suspension of Enrichment Facilities
 
By Nader Bagherzadeh
 
McCain’s advisors, Max Boot and William Kristol, are the most hawkish neocons supporters of Israel. They would never agree to any indigenous enrichment on Iranian soil. On the other hand, Obama is being guided by people like Dennis Ross, a neoliberal, with strong anti-Iranian views, which are not much different from those of McCain foreign policy advisors when it comes to Iran’s right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20537.htm

Wag the Dog
 
How To Conceal Massive Economic Collapse
 
By Ellen Brown
 
What to do? War and threats of war have been used historically to distract the population and deflect public scrutiny from economic calamity.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20530.htm

This Time, Wage Slaves Can’t Revolt
 
By Colin Barr
 
The Fed is banking on a weak labor market to keep employees from demanding wage hikes that could boost inflation. But consumers are feeling pinched.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20529.htm

Georgia: Another Neocon Farce?
 
By Sean Gabb
 
I am a citizen of a country that was a principal actor in the two big wars of the twentieth century. I believe that these wars were unnecessary for the security of my country and killed unimaginable numbers of people. They also destroyed British primacy in the world and were the means of transforming Britain from genuine liberal democracy to politically correct corporatism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20518.htm